My Subject

Personal Reflection-
Two things I am good at are completing my homework on time, and doing my online blog work.
Two things I need to improve on are my test/quiz marks for math. I also need to improve on joining in our class discussions.
My goals for the next 6 weeks of school are to be more focus and to start studying for our grade 8 final exam, I also want to get my math mark up, since I haven't been doing that well in that subject.

Adult Response-

• In looking at your work, I would like to compliment you on the following 2 things:
  2 things I would like to compliment you on are: -

I like how your project is based on helping Japan, especially the way the you are praying for them. I also like how you know how to compare peace in different ways.

• In the last 6 weeks of school I will help you reach your goals by:
  I will help you reach your goals by reminding you to review your math assignments.

Math

Term 1 Reflection

For the first term of eighth grade, we started off by making a math profile to let our classmates and teacher know more about us. We first learned how to solve problems and what to include in your answer, such as a simple sentence, outrageous answer and math information. Then we learned about ratio, rate and proportional reasoning. We worked on three term and two term ratio, unit rate and also unit price. Out of all those three, my favorite that I learned about must have to be rate. When we were almost done the rate, ratio and proportion unit, Mr. Harbeck had a fun idea to make a Sesame Street video that had to include what we have learned about ratio, rate and proportion.The people in my group were Angelique and Anna! I think it was a great way to end the unit. We also learned about square numbers and how to estimate the square root of a number. After learning about that, we moved on to Pythagoras, which was really new to me! We learned many new formulas such as “a2+b2=c2.” We learned how to figure out if a triangle was a right triangle and how to prove it. We also worked on how to find the area and perimeter of a triangle and a square. Another new thing that I learned in this unit is the term “hypotenuse”. I never knew what it meant, but now I know that the hypotenuse is opposite the right angle. I would really like to improve on my quiz and test scores. For me to be able to achieve that I need to take responsibility to study and review a little more.

Proportion, Ratio and Rate

Here is a link to my scribe post.
Here is a link to my Sesame Street video.

Here is my Sesame Street video:


Parent Quiz:

Pythagoras

Here is a link to my Pythagoras scribe post.

Term 2 Reflection

In term two, I did well on getting my homework completed on time. We learned about percents, surface area, and volume. For percents, I learned how to add GST% and PST% to a certain price or number that was given in the math problem. Surface area was my favorite thing that I studied during the second term because I got good marks on my quizzes and test. I found it easy once I knew all the formulas.I learned how to find the total surface area (T.S.A) using formulas such as (πr^2) for finding the T.S.A of a cylinder, (lxw) for finding the T.S.A of a rectangular prism, and (bxh/2) for finding the T.S.A of triangular prism. For volume, I learned a new formula which was (πr^2)xh. I learned that the volume is the amount of space inside a shape. I used to struggled on the problems when you had to find the volume of a shape with another shape added or taken away from it. Next term, I will try to do better by asking questions and communicating with my classmates.



Parent Quiz-

Volume

Here is a link to my Volume scribe post.
Here is a link to my Volume Video.

Parent Quiz:

Percent

Here is a link to my percent scribe post.
Here is a link to my Final Percent Post

Here is my Percent video:


Parent Quiz:

Integers

Here is a link to my " Great Big Book Of Integers" post.
Here is my Integers video-


Here is a mistake I made on my Integers test:
My mistake: I didn't follow the BEDMAS rule.
Correct Way.


Parent Quiz:

Fractions

Parent Quiz:


Here is my fraction video:

Language Arts

Simile Definition Card

What is Peace?

Thank You Ma'am

Social Studies

Mesopotamia Definition Card

Mesopotamian Cuneiform

Cuneiform- Self Clay Reflection

Mesopotamia Legaci of the Sumerians

Questions to Ask About a Culture

Stonehenge Postcard

Mesopotamia Trading Card

Early Peoples Definition Card

Cro- Magnon Life Drawing

TASK: What was I asked to do for this assignment?


INTENT: Why am I completing this assignment?

CRITERIA: How do I know what I needed to do to be successful in completing this assignment?

Science

Band

2 Minutes to make a difference

My group and I chose our topic to be about Japan Devastation Relief.
Our Big Questions were:
How can we get people to take action?
What is an earthquake and tsunami?
Where does this topic happen? –who is affected by topic?
Who is involved in or affected by the quake/tsunami? Explain how.
When did this issue begin? Why did it begin? When did people start caring? Why?
What are the causes of our topic?
What are the effects of you topic?
What organizations are available to help? Who are they and what do they do?
What can I do to help? How can I make a difference?
Key Points:
Some key points that were have researched is that the earthquake started off with a 7.2 magnitude on March,9 2011
then on March 11, 2011 a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:46 pm (local time in japan)
Many companies were affected such as Panasonic, Sony, and Nikon.
Where are we in our project? When is it due?
We are done gathering our information, my group and I are now on the "media" part of this project.
We are looking for very effective music and images to match our topic and information.